User:Ninel

I was born and lived in Romania until just after the Romanian Revolution, lived in US during George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies and now live in Canada since Stephen Harper's first PM term. My current main interests include history, numismatics, linguistics, phylogenetics, cosmogony, quantum mechanics, finance, math history, number theory, and US/Canadian politics. I am a borderline compulsive hoarder and bibliomaniac. I also have interests in football, baseball, hockey and basketball.

Some of my favorite authors and auteurs are (in semi-random order): Jules Verne, Charles Baudelaire, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, Margaret Atwood, Mircea Eliade, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Eugène Ionesco, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Hayao Miyazaki, Sergio Leone, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wes Anderson, Lars von Trier.

My music tastes are eclectic:
 * classical music/symphonic music/opera (e.g. Bach, Mahler, Ravel, Verdi, Wagner, Chopin)
 * choral music (e.g. Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Bulgarian Female Choir, Russian Army Choir, Vienna Boys' Choir)
 * all varieties of rock music/pop music
 * world music/new-age music (e.g. Dead Can Dance, Peter Gabriel, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Deep Forest)
 * electronica (e.g. Vangelis, Enigma, Kraftwerk, Armin van Buuren)
 * jazz (e.g. Miles Davis, The Bad Plus)
 * reggae (e.g. The Police)
 * hip hop music/rap (e.g. N.W.A, Snoop Dogg, Beastie Boys, Eminem)
 * Klezmer/Romani music/folk music (e.g. Taraf de Haïdouks, The Klezmatics)
 * space music (e.g. TC's podcast)
 * minimalism (e.g. Philip Glass)
 * comedy music (e.g. "Weird Al" Yankovic, Jim Stafford, Ada Milea) and contemporary classical music (e.g. Hania Rani).

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